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<blockquote data-quote="Robert Lofgren" data-source="post: 90559" data-attributes="member: 2447">Re: Monitor out whineEverything before the a/d-converter is a preamp. It doesn&#039;t matter if it&#039;s a mic or line input.In the &#039;old&#039; days the preamps had influence on the signal quality and sound. However on most modern gear the preamps are more or less neutral unless it&#039;s been designed with a vintage touch.In some designs the preamp is the same circuit between the mic and line input and the line input is just a pad that has been inserted.Any mic that you connect to must go through a mic preamp otherwise you will not get any sound. In studios they may use external vintage preamps for some characteristic sound. So if you want to record drums with external preamps you&#039;d need 4~16 of them to track the drums.However, as Per said, I think you are confusing the channel strip with the preamp. In the vintage mixers the channel strip (eq, limiter and some other stuff affecting the signal) was all integrated into a single module with the mic/line preamp so you could only access the direct signal via a direct/tape or similar means thus bypassing the channel strip.In the x32 (and any other digital mixer for that matter) you don&#039;t have this problem with the channel strip since in normal cases it doesn&#039;t affect the signal, unless you want it to.I hope this make you understand the concept a little better...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Robert Lofgren, post: 90559, member: 2447"] Re: Monitor out whine Everything before the a/d-converter is a preamp. It doesn't matter if it's a mic or line input. In the 'old' days the preamps had influence on the signal quality and sound. However on most modern gear the preamps are more or less neutral unless it's been designed with a vintage touch. In some designs the preamp is the same circuit between the mic and line input and the line input is just a pad that has been inserted. Any mic that you connect to must go through a mic preamp otherwise you will not get any sound. In studios they may use external vintage preamps for some characteristic sound. So if you want to record drums with external preamps you'd need 4~16 of them to track the drums. However, as Per said, I think you are confusing the channel strip with the preamp. In the vintage mixers the channel strip (eq, limiter and some other stuff affecting the signal) was all integrated into a single module with the mic/line preamp so you could only access the direct signal via a direct/tape or similar means thus bypassing the channel strip. In the x32 (and any other digital mixer for that matter) you don't have this problem with the channel strip since in normal cases it doesn't affect the signal, unless you want it to. I hope this make you understand the concept a little better... [/QUOTE]

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